OK, we've heard of blog addicts, but this 23-year-old guy in San Francisco take
s the cake.
Not content with plain old blogging and vlogging (that's short for video blogg
ing), 23-year-old Justin Kan is showing his life to the whole world via online
video, 24 hours a day, seven times a week. It's Justin.tv, and for now, people are watching.
Some people live blog. This guy is "lifecasting."Â Justin put a camera on his h
ead so that he can chronicle everything he does everyday -- and I mean everythi
ng, including bathroom breaks.
The site promises that Justin will continue this Internet reality TV show until
the day he dies: "Justin will wear the camera until the day he dies. By which
we mean if he takes it off, we'll kill him."
Here's an excerpt from an article in the San Francisco Ch
ronicle:
Kan calls it "lifecasting." The concept is simple: Using technology his team developed, Kan has strapped a camera to his head to capture every mom ent of his existence in live streaming video on the Internet. Viewers literally see the world through Kan's virtual eyes, which broadcast his life onto the We b 24/7. He interacts with his audience through 21 chat rooms and hundreds of e- mails each day. He even took their calls on his cell phone until he got overwhe lmed. The show's slogan says it all: "Waste time watching other people waste time." A nd that's what tens of thousand of folks around the globe are doing, turning Ka n into an online phenom by tuning in to his irreverent and uncensored world. Th at sudden explosion of peeping onlookers has caused so many technical difficult ies that Justin.tv had to recruit volunteers from the audience to keep the show rolling.So, is this genius, or the ultimate expression of online narcissism? Probably b oth, as many ventures are in this brave new world of Web 2.0, reality TV, citiz en journalism, social networking and user-generated content. On the one hand, we'd rather watch ordinary people like us, whether they're doing ordinary or ex traordinary things, and wonderful or stupid acts (as opposed, say, to professio nal TV hosts, actors and actresses doing unintentionally stupid things). On th e other hand, maybe many of us are becoming increasingly self-absorbed, in the backlash against those days when Old Media shoved content we didn't want d own our throats. I'm an optimist, however, so I believe it's possible to strike the right balanc e. Instead of turning the whole world into our own personal versions of "The Tr uman Show."Â
i can't imagine doing something like this. writing about my personal life onlin
e is quite a challenge and if i add lifecasting, i'll probably be even more pub
lic than celebrities.
A lifetime project..
what about his lovelife? Is he insane or what?
what kind of a girl could allow her relationship with this guy to be viewed by
anybody even with their intimate moments or maybe he didn't think of this....t
his guy's insane I guess.
I wrote something abt it recently with a video interview as well..
http://priscillatan.com/2007/08/19/its-live-intrigued-by-ustream/
I guess there's always an easier way ...
thank you allot for the great post!
I found a youtube video about watching tv online that I would like to share:
a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_pat6i_jo" rel="nofollow">Internationa
l TV Online.
but seriously, great post and thanks alot !
i look forward to your next article !
:-)
Goodness! no privacy even during bathroom breaks? Is this guy insane, obsessed or a patron of blogging and by the way i heard vlogging for the first time from here, is the term already coined?
Maybe this guy is trying to enter the Guinness Book of Records or Ripley's world but one thing is sure he doesn't have a girlfriend he loves or he never fell in love. But whatever, it's too hard to digest, something abnormal. If he continue to live like this he'll be like a weirdo.
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Kan calls it "lifecasting." The concept is simple: Using technology his team developed, Kan has strapped a camera to his head to capture every mom ent of his existence in live streaming video on the Internet. Viewers literally see the world through Kan's virtual eyes, which broadcast his life onto the We b 24/7. He interacts with his audience through 21 chat rooms and hundreds of e- mails each day. He even took their calls on his cell phone until he got overwhe lmed. The show's slogan says it all: "Waste time watching other people waste time." A nd that's what tens of thousand of folks around the globe are doing, turning Ka n into an online phenom by tuning in to his irreverent and uncensored world. Th at sudden explosion of peeping onlookers has caused so many technical difficult ies that Justin.tv had to recruit volunteers from the audience to keep the show rolling.
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